alt Hacker News> Now it’s just Reddit-style comment sections of people picking at each other.
Absolute nonsense.
> > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html]
The guidelines post above links to nine comments echoing yours, some almost 20 years old.
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Those ~20 year old comments compared HN to Reddit of that time, which was insulting to HN. In the 20 years that passed probably HN at some point crossed the threshold of old Reddit. But now the insult is to compare it to current Reddit.
On the other hand putting it in the rules that you’re not allowed to say X and then quoting the rule as evidence against X is at the very least not an intellectually interesting way of making a point. Imagine if everyone put in their profile that they’re never wrong and kept pointing at that when challenged.
Context matters; a comment comparing HN to Reddit in the middle of huge thread specifically about the character of the community and how it may (or may not) have changed is different than a comment on a random thread. Especially as quite a few seem to think that, no, something really has changed the last few years and it's not merely a "a semi-noob illusion"?